New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-22
FEW SILvERsMITHS AT WORK
LONG AND BITTER FIGHT EXPECTED.
NEARLY 600 FAIL TO REPoRr-wHAr THE MEN

NEARLY 600 FAIL TO REPORT-wHAT THE MEN
AND THE MANUFACTURES SAY
About 600 siIversmiths fai ed to report for work
yesterday morning in the various shops of the city
in which had been posted the order locking ont
members Of the Knights of Labor and what looks
and their employees has begun.
The factory of Tiffany g. Co., in Priuce-st., was
comparatively deserted. The firm employs about
800 hands in all Its departments silver work,
but barely 100 of them were in their places
when time was called at a. N. The locked
out mea were from all the departments and work is
almost entirely suspended. so far as turning out
goods III marketable condition Is concerned. The
foremen of the various rooms asked the people who
came to work if they were members of the Knights
of Labor, and If the answer was IN the Affirmative
they were told to stop work until they had severed
their connection with the organization. There were
few affirmative answers
In the shop of Dominick g. Hal, at Broadway
and Seventeenth-st, only thirty seven and boys
out of total force of 140 reported and the shop is
completely disorganized and practically closed
so far as effective work is concerned. At Wood &
Hughes's ten men out Of seventy were at work.
and at George W. Schieber's five out OF fOrty-fve
appeared. Pretty. nearly all of the men in tho
Whiting Company's place have been ont since FRI
day last This brings the total number out up to be-
tween $50 and 600 in this city,.
The Gorham Manufacturing Company's shops are
in They 200 ont 1S
lockout notice was posted in the shop. 1t Is ex-
pected that they will leave work this morning.
about 100 men. has Joined the combination and has
locked out the Knights of Labor employed in his
place. ~
The Executive Board of the, Silver aud
Brass Workers Union had called special
meetings of the workers at No. 1913 BOwery and
No. so East Fourth-st. for the slversmiths. and at
No x Enat Aru<h hok &nr< <hA ohn ant n
could be compared and plans laid for carrying on
the fight. The statement was made at the meet
ings that the reports from the shops showed that
Committees of fifteen each from the smiths and the
chasers were appointed to conduct the fight; The
committees of FIVE to confer with the bosses at any
time they showed o disposition to treat with the
men,
one of determination to carry the fight to snc.
cessful issue at whatever cost. They feel that
they have big fight on their
The statement that there is a formal organization
of the manufacturers is not strictly true: They
and have promised to act together until the power
of the Knights of Labor is broken in the shops
E. C. Moore, Of Tiffany & Co., said yesterday:
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minds to come back and shall at any time De Wiling
or anybody than employees. that is another
question. The basis Of any negotiations must be the giving
come back with their wages treatment We
VIII meet fairly There are good In many 20 e me
important WIN be Put back but despite this guess we
will pull through.
The manager of the Gorham Manufacturing Com
pany said:
None Of in Providence have gone ont as yet butt
R they w 90 80 so % So be oe ont II
voluntarily, shall dis
charge all the knights Of Labor in employ We viii nos
me Saa snrs
Tor little time any way.
Mr. Dominick of Dominick & Half, said that he
would not open his shop to any members of trade
organizations until the strike is settled. The men
earn on average about SIS week, though some
Of them make as hga as $50.
The men are confident that the strike will be
ended before the close of the week and look on the
lockout as q "bluff" on the part of tue mannfact-
urers which does not frighten them. John Alexan-
der the secretary of the Executive Board, says:
time the bosses is not justified by
We bound TO win because II Is n
oss az once ana wee have moSey enough 70 Last or long
time.
A. B. George, of the Board of Arbtra ton of Dis
trict Assembly No. 40, to which the strikers ate
attached, said yesterday:
The silversmiths receive SIS week-tho
they have to spend At LEAST
years the trade The statement OF Mr. Cook OF
have and have done ess work than before
Ss e a H sy az ae
before In looking books Tor Information IN
shed would starte the purchasers sveware and which
would TO the public that those who aSs .e
and not on their productions
The men will hold mass meeting this afternoon.